@sam0I’m visiting relatives and family this month. Honestly, not too interesting. I'll be continuing the update for my website as well as some other projects I'd like to finish or start!
@sike0here at the airport n decided to create a face tracking lol:
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0my flight stick now hosts 2 functioning axis, a more compact size, and reinforced cams. onto implementing real springs
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0design progress: fixed most of the issues, reinforced the spring mount, and made a wheel using my wheel assembly jig. I'm gonna try making a wheel with a bigger contact surface so that the plane so that the plane is more controllable, and I may add a reinforcement bar to the gear leg, as well as tighten it's tolerances on the spring mount.
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0starting my streak again...
today I worked on new landing gear for my rc plane. my last one had issues with snapping and requiring the entire piece to be replaced. this design uses replaceable components, and also features suspension by way of mechanical pencil spring. I still need to design a new method of attaching the wheel, likely with a custom tension screw collar.
@alialiwa20050Inspired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) :aws:, Libre Web Services (LWS) :libre-web-services:, also known as "Raspberry Web Services (RWS)" :raspberry-pi-logo:, is a concept built during Hack Club's :hackclub: Winter of Making :wom: 2023 Winter Hardware Wonderland :winter-hardware-wonderland: "10 Days of Making" event is a hackable, scalable, load-balanced, home-hosted, multi-node aarch64 Arm-based :arm: cloud powered by Kubernetes :kubernetes: & Docker :docker:, created by @alialiwa2005 ("Hack Cat" :hacker-cat:), a veteran :scrappy-retro: Hack Club community member :dino-drake-yea: & founder 🧭 of Gaynor McCown Hack Club:gaynormccown:, established in November of 2020 :dinosaur_waving:.
Libre Web Services :libre-web-services: on Hack Club Scrapbook :scrappy: | Libre.hackclub.com
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0prototype for my macropad, will finish cad and print tomorrow. will also try and work on my reciever to sim program so that I can use my rc plane radio with PhoenixRC to practice flying. if it's nice out, I'll clean the garage. I'll soon print components for the PC case, and then once I've finished printing components for me and @jeijii-U04GRS3T9J8's macropads I'll get back to printing mpcnc components.
@belle0Day 10 of #hardware-party :roo-yay:
Started working on the frame / physical map portion of the project!! I’m not done yet so I’ll be continuing on the project beyond the 10 days :)
@alialiwa20050Winter of Making Day 10
Yesterday, Minecraft was first deployed.
Today, networking has been configured to publicly expose the world, allowing you to join in!
I invite you to test LWS by playing Minecraft :minecraft: as a service hosted on Libre Web Services :libre-web-services:
Join the world today, version 1.19 PaperMC :paperplane:
Theoretically, in case the server goes down for any reason, it should spin up again promptly!
Hopefully that won't happen too often, though, as each instance of Minecraft leverages 2 ARM cores :arm: & 2 gigabytes of DDR4 Samsung RAM powering a high-performance optimized fork (please keep in mind that because we're running off microSD cards, there most likely be greater than typical lag/delays).
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Minecraft Server Address:
Libre.hackclub.com:25565
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:minecraft: on :libre-web-services: will remain public for at least the next 7 days, so feel free to attempt a speedrun, play with friends, and build cool things while it's public!
Feel free to post your creations on Minecraft on Libre Web Services on scrapbook, feel free to also tag me & attach the libre-web-services emoji to your :libre-web-services: posts!
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Additionally, I invite you to check out SkyScanner, another project in this year's Winter of Making Winter Hardware Wonderland event, which is a DIY aircraft radar station that recieves and records ADS-B signals from nearby flying aircraft in real-time!
In a collaboration, SkyScanner is now publicly exposed via a Libre Web Services tunnel (skyscanner.libre.hackclub.com), which will remain a publicly-accessible dashboard for the next 24 hours, so check it out while it's airborne!
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Libre Web Services on Hack Club Scrapbook | Libre.hackclub.com
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@MostafaSaleh0Winter of Making Day 10
Here is my project's local dashboard publicly tunneled via Libre Web Services:libre-web-services:
This tunnel will be online for the next 24 hours: skyscanner.libre.hackclub.com
@MostafaSaleh0Winter of Making Day 9
Finished setting up software
@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0day 6 of #hardware-party, spent some time drafting the wiring for my macropad, printed some hotswap sockets, and messed around with connecting my rc plane reciever to my pico (unrelated to my project I just got extremely sidetracked)
tomorrow I'll be cleaning out my garage to make space for the CNC machine, which I'll print the next few batches of components for over the weekdays as I still have to print quite a few things for the macropads. very likely won't finish the CNC by the end of the 10 day period, but hope to have made significant progress
as for the PC, I've got a significant amount of design work done, but I may redesign the bottom platform to be more secure. we may not get to build the PC itself until after the period as cleiftons availability got annihilated by his parents 😭
@belle0Day one of the Winter Hardware Wonderland :roo-yay:
For the next 10 days, i'm attempting to build an interactive sectional map with live weather data ☁️ (check out my proposal <https://github.com/hackclub/winter/blob/main/bellesea.md|here>)
This is my first full hardware project so i'm super excited!!! We're not off to a great start as I ran into some trouble connecting to my pi :( However, while we're figuring that out, I already started learning micropython and also read up on how to set up the IR sensors, which will serve as "hands off buttons" to toggle between different modes.
The core of the project is displaying weather data through different coloured LEDS. I have some WS2811 LEDS that will serve as the lights for each of the airport locations and show the local weather data w/ different colours so I planned out the specific airports i'll be adding lights to + the order in which it'll be linked. I'm working off a fork of github.com/prueker/METARMap.
Below is a much much fancier version of what i'm trying to make...
@ShubhamPatil0Tickets for Mumbai are booked! Going in April for my grandpa's birthday!
@belle0finishing day 10 of #10-days-in-public with a lecture on flight planning! did not reach my original goal of finishing the entire lecture series but i'm definitely still going to be going through it :) to celebrate this being the last day, here's 3 cool things i learned:
• all runways are bi-directional and named after the angle/bearing so runway 180 is also runway 360 :) and you take off against the direction of the wind (it hits the nose of the plane first) so a runway working both ways allows pilots (instructed by the air traffic controller) to pick a direction depending on the weather.
• planes are louder when they take off than when they land because they use more power to initially get the plane in the air
• from 18,000 to 60,000 feet above sea level, the pilot must have an instrument rating and fly under instrument flight rules which basically means using data from your flight instruments to navigate rather than using your eyes haha, and that's because you have lowered visibility
(bonus: it's possible to safely land a plane even if your engine stops working because you're able to glide, and how far you can travel while gliding depends on your glide ratio)
@belle0learning about the human factors of flight!
day 9 of #10-days-in-public 🛩️
@belle0Still on the chapter about aircraft systems :) currently learning about the engine system!
Day 8 of #10-days-in-public
@belle0Learning about aircraft systems!
Day 7 of #10-days-in-public
@belle0started the chapter on flight controls from the pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge :)
day 6 of #10-days-in-public
@belle0to revise/recall what i've learned thus far about planes, i started drafting notes/mindmaps from memory and looking up things that i realised i forgot :))
@belle0didn't make that much progress today with the lecture series, still on the same lecture about aircraft performance :)) i did learn a cool/fun fact about flying planes though, most of the time, headwind is better than tailwind because at the right angle of attack (angle of your plane relative to the wind), it helps generate greater lift :)
day 4 of #10-days-in-public
@belle0continuing on with the lectures for day 3 of #10-days-in-public :)) looking at factors that affect how a plane performs :roo-yay:
@belle0hey fwens :hyper-dino-wave: for the next 10 days, i'm going to learn more about airplanes and flying by completing a private pilot ground school course and maybe some other things ✈️
source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=alLh1Jdqwvg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v311Vl72ozOiK25&index=10
specifically, today i learned about how to communicate with control towers and how to get weather data while you're flying :))
day 1 of #10-days-in-public
@Lucas0watching the air chaos over Sao Paulo, due to a gigantic CB
@jzaleta0Second pictures group, taken almost when I was going to land. 🛬 🛣️
@jzaleta0I finally arrived back! 🛬 The trip was a bit long and this time I didn't had time ⏲️ to make mid-day updates but everything went great! As planned, I waked up early 🌄 and then went to the airport, ✈️ and after arriving into the Capital I took a bus back into the state! 🚌 🗻 The route was different and I took a lot of different pictures on many places 📸 , as you can see here, like the Lake of Cuitzeo!
@jzaleta0Today I'll go to a small trip 🗺️ so I won't have time to work on projects! Instead I'll be on the road 🚗 and then on an airplane ✈️ to go back to my first home! I will be reading some interesting books, listening to some cool music 🎧 and maybe I will draw 🖊️ a bit, play some games 🎮 or code 💻 locally depending on my devices batteries! 🔋 I'll try as well to share images, so meanwhile here's two very cool :blob-cool: landscape images 🌆 part of my first Scrapbook post of the day! :tw_tada:
